F. Scott Fitzgerald Quotes
1896 – 1940
American novelist, author of "The Great Gatsby".
“For two cents the voter buys his politics, prejudices, and philosophy.”
“At any rate, let us love for a while, for a year or so, you and me.”
“There are only diamonds in the whole world, diamonds and perhaps the shabby gift of disillusion.”
“The farmers may be the backbone of the country, but who wants to be a backbone?”
“I care not who hoes the lettuce of my country if I can eat the salad!”
“He was sufficiently spoiled to be charming; she was ingenuous enough to be irresistible.”
“He had angered Providence by resisting too many temptations.”
“All life is just a progression toward, and then a recession from, one phrase— 'I love you.'”
“Dishonesty in a woman is a thing you never blame deeply - I was casually sorry, and then I forgot.”
“Let us learn to show our friendship for a man when he is alive and not after he is dead.”
“So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past.”
“Sometimes it is harder to deprive oneself of a pain than of a pleasure.”
“In a real dark night of the soul it is always three o'clock in the morning, day after day.”
“Genius goes around the world in its youth incessantly apologizing for having large feet.”
“No grand idea was ever born in a conference, but a lot of foolish ideas have died there.”
“You don't write because you want to say something, you write because you have something to say.”
